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Everglades Florida - Nautical Safety
You may pass, but keep your distance. Boats that are of similar types also have specific rules for nautical safety. When two sailboats are approaching each other the port-tack boat must give way to the starboard-tack boat. If the boats are on the same tack, the windward boat, or the boat upwind of the other, must give way to the leeward boat ...
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A Brief History of Perdido Bay
In about two hours they caught enough bream to "nearly fill our boat," and left about two o'clock to avoid "those poisonous vapors ... fish, letting the net be pulled from the boat as he went, ending up with the boat pulled up on shore about 200 feet from ... the mill to discharge effluent not meeting state standards, Champion tried a new tack. In May of 1997 Champion announced that it was initiating a ...
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Bannerman Island History -- A Hudson River Jewel
S ISLAND ARSENAL, obvious to all who pass by on train and boat." See photo (45k). The Bannerman Family History The intersection of Pollopel ... , the caretaker, Frank Crawford, came to meet us in the work boat. That first time we walked around and explored, there was so ... their original crates, never unpacked. It was a great place for tack, cots, tents, saddles ... I still have my kepi from 1935." The ...
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Ocean Highways
Columbus, maintaining their cumbersome contact with Iceland and Norway by open boat, and regularly supervised and taxed by the Vatican. Written records ... enough to move freely between and over the swells: a boat much over 10 metres long will either be forced to ... directly into the wind, it would also have had to tack against the powerful trade winds, adding another couple of thousand kilometres ...
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PCRF at Sea
We sailed on. RVH crew on watch at sea We used our time at ... waters. There are two passes into the lagoon – the North Save-a-Tack and the South Save-a-Tack passages. They offer very different scenes, both spectacular in their own way ...
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National Geographic: Lewis & Clark—Returning to the Mandans, Running a Sioux Gauntlet
"A little above the Petite River de Seeoux we met a tradeing boat... of St. Louis bound to the River Jacque to trade with the Yanktons, this boat was in the care of a Mr. Henry Delorn.... we purchased a gallon ... them.... they informed me that they were Tetons and their chief was Tar-tack-kah-sab-bar or the black buffalow this chief I knew very well ...
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